IVIES IN PARIS DAILY BLOG

PARIS, France – It was a historic and memorable Olympic Games for the Ivy League as 109 past, present, and future Ivies and five coaches participated in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, France.
 
30 Ivies took home a total of 34 medals across eight sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Ivies took home 32 medals in the Olympics marking the most marking the most in a single Olympics for the Ivy League. Four Ivies also won multiple medals in their sport. In all, Ivies captured 16 gold medals, seven silver medals and 11 bronze medals. Current and former NCAA athletes took home 15 Olympic medals, finishing in fifth of 22 conferences that earned medals, only behind the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Big 12.
 
GOLD MEDALS:

Jackie Dubrovich	Columbia	Fencing, Women’s Team Foil	USA
Michael Grady	Cornell	Rowing, Men’s Four	USA
Liam Corrigan	Harvard	Rowing, Men’s Four	USA
Nick Mead	Princeton	Rowing, Men's Four	USA
Lauren Scruggs	Harvard	Fencing, Women’s Team Foil	USA
Lisa Tertsch	Harvard	Triathlon, Mixed Relay	Germany
Gabrielle Thomas	Harvard	Athletics, Women’s 200m	USA
Kristen Faulkner	Harvard	Cycling, Women’s Road Race	USA
Kristen Faulkner	Harvard	Cycling, Women’s Team Pursuit	USA
Gabrielle Thomas	Harvard	Athletics, Women’s 4x100 Relay	USA
Gabrielle Thomas	Harvard	Athletics, Women’s 4x400 Relay	USA
Hannah Scott	Princeton	Rowing, Women’s Quadruple Sculls	Great Britain
Maia Weintraub	Princeton	Fencing, Women’s Team Foil	USA
Thomas Digby	Yale	Rowing, Men’s Eight	Great Britain
Sholto Carnegie	Yale	Rowing, Men’s Eight	Great Britain
Charlie Elwes	Yale	Rowing, Men’s Eight	Great Britain

 
SILVER MEDALS:

Taylor Knibb	Cornell	Triathlon, Mixed Relay	USA
Lauren Scruggs	Harvard	Fencing, Women’s Individual Foil	USA
Tom George	Princeton	Rowing, Men’s Pair	Great Britain
Oliver Wynne-Griffith	Yale	Rowing, Men’s Pair	Great Britain
Maya Meschkuleit	Yale	Rowing, Women’s Eight	Canada
Ali Truwit	Yale	Para Swimming, Women's 400 Freestyle S10	USA
Ali Truwit	Yale	Para Swimming, Women's 100 Backstroke S10	USA

 
BRONZE MEDALS:

Henry Hollingsworth	Brown	Rowing, Men’s Eight	USA
Kyle Dake	Cornell	Wrestling, 74kg Freestyle	USA
Ariana Ramsey	Dartmouth	Rugby Sevens	USA
David Ambler	Harvard	Rowing, Men’s Four	Great Britain
Christian Tabash	Harvard	Rowing, Men’s Eight	USA
Clark Dean	Harvard	Rowing, Men’s Eight	USA
Pieter Quinton	Harvard	Rowing, Men’s Eight	USA
Daire Lynch	Yale	Rowing, Men’s Double Sculls	Ireland
Andrin Gulich	Yale	Rowing, Men’s Pair	Switzerland
Ian Barrows	Yale	Sailing, Men’s Skiff	USA
Nick Rusher	Yale	Rowing, Men’s Eight	USA

 
 
HISTORY IN THE MAKING

• Dartmouth’s Ariana Ramsey and Team USA Rugby head coach and Brown alumna, Emilie Bydwell made history in the Rugby Sevens competition. Team USA defeated Australia in stunning fashion as Ramsey’s pass to Alex Sedrick in the final seconds of the match helped set up the game-winning try. The Team USA rugby sevens squad secured its first-ever medal in Olympic history. 
• Three Ivies won gold in the men’s four competition including Princeton’s Nick Mead, Cornell’s Michael Grady and Harvard’s Liam Corrigan. The trio led the US to its first gold in the men’s four since 1960.
• Rising Harvard senior Lauren Scruggs made a name for herself with two medals in Paris. In the women’s individual foil event, Scruggs won a silver medal, becoming the first Black American female fencer to win an individual medal at the Olympics.
• Three Ivy League fencers won Gold in the women’s foil team event including Harvard’s Lauren Scruggs, Columbia’s Jackie Dubrovich and Princeton’s Maia Weintraub. The group gave Team USA its first-ever gold medal in a team fencing event at the Olympics. 
• Former Harvard rower Kristen Faulkner captured two golds in a pair of women’s cycling events. Faulkner shocked the world in the women’s road race, crossing the finish line first to give Team USA its first medal in the event since 1984. Faulkner shined again three days later, leading Team USA to gold in the women’s team pursuit, winning Team USA’s first gold medal in the event in Olympic history. 
• One of the brightest stars in American track & field, Harvard’s Gabrielle Thomas won three gold medals at the Stade de France, taking first place in the women’s 200m, women’s 4x100 relay, and the women’s 4x400 relay. Thomas became the first American since Allyson Felix at the 2012 London Olympics to win gold in the 200m, 4x100m and the 4x400m at the Olympics. Across two Olympic appearances, Thomas has now won five medals (three gold, one silver, one bronze).
• Princeton’s Nick Mead, alongside Katie Ledecky, was selected as one of Team USA’s bearers for the closing ceremony. Mead was the first-ever rower to lead Team USA as a flag bearer at an Olympic opening or closing ceremony. Mead was not the only Ivy flag bearer at the closing ceremony as fellow Tigers Kathleen Noble earned the distinction for Uganda and Adell Sabovic carried the flag for Kosovo. 

TOP-1O FINISHES
Multiple Ivies finished just outside of medal contention but still cemented their status as some of the most elite athletes with top-10 finishes on the world’s biggest stage. 
 

Madison Hughes	Dartmouth	Men’s Rugby Sevens	USA	8th Place
Kat Holmes	Princeton	Fencing – Women’s Epee Team	USA	7th Place
Anne Cebula	Columbia	Fencing – Women’s Epee Team	USA	7th Place
Hadley Husisian	Princeton	Fencing – Women’s Epee Team	USA	7th Place
Matthew Fallon	Penn	Swimming – 200m Breaststroke	USA	T-10th Place
Lisa Tertsch	Harvard	Triathlon	Germany	9th Place
Jonas Juel	Princeton	Rowing – Men’s Quadruple Sculls	Norway	8th Place
Eli Dershwitz	Harvard	Fencing – Men’s Sabre Team	USA	7th Place
Mitchell Saron	Harvard	Fencing – Men’s Sabre Team	USA	7th Place
Colin Heathcock	Harvard	Fencing – Men’s Sabre Team	USA	7th Place
Shaul Gordon	Penn	Fencing – Men’s Sabre Team	Canada	8th Place
Kristi Wagner	Yale	Rowing – Women’s Double Sculls	USA	9th Place
Sorin Koszyk	Cornell	Rowing – Men’s Double Sculls	USA	4th Place
Emily Kallfelz	Princeton	Rowing – Women’s Four	USA	5th Place
Kelsey Reelick	Princeton	Rowing – Women’s Four	USA	5th Place
Daisy Mazzio-Manson	Yale	Rowing – Women’s Four	USA	5th Place
Tim Masters	Princeton	Rowing – Men’s Four	Australia	6th Place
Fergus Hamilton	Princeton	Rowing – Men’s Four	Australia	6th Place
Jessica Guo	Harvard	Fencing – Women’s Team Foil	Canada	4th Place
Malak Hamza	Penn	Fencing – Women’s Team Foil	Egypt	8th Place
Dan Williamson	Yale	Rowing – Men’s Pair	New Zealand	7th Place
Oliver Bub	Dartmouth	Rowing – Men’s Pair	USA	10th Place
William Bender	Dartmouth	Rowing – Men’s Pair	USA	10th Place
Christine Bourmpou	Yale	Rowing – Women’s Pair	Greece	6th Place
Molly Reckford	Dartmouth	Rowing – Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls	USA	6th Place
Tim Masters	Princeton	Rowing – Men’s Eight	Australia	6th Place
Charlotte Buck	Columbia	Rowing – Women’s Eight	USA	5th Place
Olivia Coffey	Harvard	Rowing – Women’s Eight	USA	5th Place
Regina Salmons	Penn	Rowing – Women’s Eight	USA	5th Place
Claire Collins	Princeton	Rowing – Women’s Eight	USA	5th Place
Margaret Hedeman	Yale	Rowing – Women’s Eight	USA	5th Place
Elizabeth Tartakovsky	Harvard	Fencing – Women’s Sabre Team	USA	5th Place
Tatiana Nazlymov	Princeton	Fencing – Women’s Sabre Team	USA	5th Place
Maia Chamberlain	Princeton	Fencing – Women’s Sabre Team	USA	5th Place
Blake Broszus	Penn	Fencing – Men’s Foil Team	Canada	7th Place
Bogdan Hamilton	Columbia	Fencing – Men’s Foil Team	Canada	7th Place
Mohamed Hamza	Princeton	Fencing – Men’s Foil Team	Egypt	8th Place
Rudy WInkler	Cornell	Athletics – Men’s Hammer Throw	USA	6th Place
Nia Akins	Penn	Athletics – Women’s 800m	USA	10th Place
Sondre Guttormsen	Princeton	Athletics – Men’s Pole Vault	USA	8th Place
Maodo Lo	Columbia	Basketball	Germany	4th Place
Lizzie Bird	Princeton	Athletics – Women’s 3000m Steeplechase	Great Britain	7th Place
Ashleigh Johnson	Princeton	Water Polo	USA	4th Place
Jovanna Sekulic	Princeton	Water Polo	USA	4th Place
Graham Blanks	Harvard	Athletics – Men’s 5000m	USA	9th Place
Jade Rose	Harvard	Football	Canada	Quarterfinals
David Abrahams	Harvard	Para Swimming - Men's 100m Breaststroke S13	USA	5th Place
Skyler Espinoza	Columbia	Para Cycling - Women's B 1000m Time Trial	USA	6th Place

OTHER NOTABLES

• Harvard student-athletes won 11 medals for Team USA, which ranked third among all programs in the NCAA. Of those 11 American medals, seven were gold, which was tied for second among all schools with Virginia.
• All eight Ivy League schools were represented in the Olympic games. Each institution had at least five participants.
• Ivies represented 23 countries and competed in 16 different Olympic sports
• The Ivy League increased its all-time medal count to 535. If the Ivy League were its own country, it would rank 15^th on the all-time table.
• Two current Ivy League coaches helped their squads win medals at the Olympics and Paralympics. Brown's Emilie Bydwell, head coach of the USA women's rugby sevens team, coached Team USA to Gold while Harvard assistant men's rowing coach Tom Siddall coached the mixed PR3 4+ boat to silver in para rowing at the Paralympics. 

 
TEAM USA OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOOTPRINT

• In all, 65 participants, including Olympians, Paralympians, alternates, and coaches were named to Team USA
• 47 current and former Ivy League student-athletes will be competed on the U.S. Olympic team, which was the fourth-highest of the 32 Division I athletic conferences and 45 participating athletic conferences. The Ivy League was one of three conferences in the country to have its entire membership represented on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team (Ivy League, Big Ten, SEC). 
• Harvard was the only non-power four school in the top-10 list of contributors to Team USA with 15 U.S. Olympians. 
• All eight Ivy institutions had representation on the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team, composing exactly half of Team USA's roster. The Ivy League is the only conference that was able to make this claim in any sport.
• Sixty percent of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Fencing team competed in the Ivy League; this included representation from three schools; Columbia, Harvard and Princeton. A total of 13 U.S. Olympic fencers have competed or will compete in the Ivy League. With this, the 2024 U.S. Olympic men’s saber team is believed to be the first time in history that an entire Olympic fencing squad was comprised of athletes from a single institution (Harvard). Eli Dershwitz, Mitchell Saron and Filip Dolegiewicz have already completed their Crimson careers, with Colin Heathcock enrolling this fall.
• Six Ivy League athletes competed on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team.
• For the first time in history, the Ivy League had two water polo athletes representing Team USA; Ashleigh Johnson and Jovana Sekulic, both Princeton Tigers.